Fans of the television series Iron Chef America
will be happy to learn that the show, which left Food Network in
2014, is returning in spring 2017. The reboot of the
show includes a new name: the new program will be
called Iron Chef Gauntlet.

Reports indicate that Alton Brown will be reprising his role as
host of the competition. It's hard to believe that the
first Iron Chef America premiered in 2005 - over
a decade ago! Next Iron Chef premiered in 2007 and
the two shows ran concurrently for five seasons, after which
Next Iron Chef was dropped. If you didn't realize
that Iron Chef America was no longer on the airwaves,
that is because although the program ended its run on Food
Network in 2014, it moved to Cooking Channel for a year before
being mothballed.

Bobby Flay
remains the most winning chef on Iron Chef America,
racking up 43 wins. He's followed by Michael
Symon, whose tally stands at 34. Symon enjoys the best win
percentage, beating his opponents over 80% of the time. At this
time there is no word on whether these - or any - of the former
Iron Chefs will return.

Fans of
Alton Brown have mourned his departure from the Food Network, but
now they have something to cheer them up. In a live chat on
Facebook on Saturday, Brown delighted his audience by revealing
that he will be soon startinga new internet cooking
show.

The new program will
allegedly be called "A Cooking Show", and it will be a sequel to
his popular program Good Eats. Brown decided not to try to put the
show on television for two reasons, the first of which is that
he wanted freedom to do what he wanted without worrying about
"what a larger corporate entity might or might not want." He listed
several subjects that the Food Network wouldn't let him cover,
which included cooking game like rabbit and venison, and working
with offal. Brown also said he would be using a digital scale in
his cooking. He warned fans that they would have to become
proficient in using one, and was adamant that he would be using
metric measurements, because he "hates fractions and hates
decimals", stating that "grams is grams."

The second reason for
placing the show on the internet is that he wanted to be able to
respond to his fans' requests. In Brown's hour-long Facebook chat,
he proceeded to do just that: notepad in hand, he scribbled down
subjects that his fans were writing in the comments. One of the
topics was "more steaks" - to which Brown replied that he would be
interested in working with meat other than beef. Another topic was
yeast breads, and Brown promised to bring back the "yeast puppets"
that he killed in an episode of Good Eats. While no exact timeline
was announced, Brown said the new show will debut sometime next
year.

If the EYB
Forum and Facebook posts are any indication, plenty of our members
recently received the charter issue of Milk Street,
Christopher Kimball's new publication. The magazine may have seemed
familiar toCook's
Illustratedin its approach to
recipe development: create the best version of a dish by listing,
and subsequently eliminating, the problems that often arise in
other recipes. The concept is a bit too familiar to his former
company, which has filed a lawsuit against Kimball, alleging that
he "literally and conceptuallyripped off America's Test
Kitchen."

The suit claims that Kimball not only copied the model,
but that he took steps to build Milk Street as a direct competitor
to ATK, including using the company's databases and recipes, while
still employed at America's Test Kitchen. Jack Bishop, currently
the Chief Creative Officer at ATK, said that Kimball "kept on
saying he wasn't going to compete. I took him at his word." Bishop
noted several similarities between Cook's Illustrated and
Milk Street, including graphical properties and the
magazine's 32-page size.

The lawsuit cites a number of emails that purportedly show
Kimball, or those working under his direction, surreptitiously
completing tasks for the benefit of Milk Street, such as obtaining
office space and copying recipes. This is not the only litigation
involving Milk Street: the owner of Boston's Milk Street Cafe filed
a trademark lawsuit earlier this year.

Fifty years ago last February, the first edition of what would
become Australian Gourmet Traveller magazine appeared on
newsstands. To celebrate a half century of celebrating Australian
food culture, the magazine has issued a 'virtual reprint' of its inaugural magazine,
when it was known as The Australian Gourmet
Magazine.

The magazine notes that a lot has changed since its inception.
They note that they "no longer address readers as "my darling
girls". Nor would we recommend prawns on ice, or prescribing glazed
wing rib of beef as "the way to his heart", they continue. Major
graphical changes have occurred along the way as
well.

In an era where magazines frequently fold, it's refreshing to
see a food publication celebrate such longevity. While our index
doesn't go back to 1966, we have indexed almost every issue of Gourmet
Traveller since 2010, so you can browse the magazine and
learn more about it. Recent issues have had averaged about half of
the recipes available online.

Given Oprah's proven ability to promote
books through her book club, the new cookbook is expected to sell
millions. In the book, Oprah willshare "not only her
struggles with food but also the recipes that have allowed food to
be a source of joy for her again." The recipe names from the
book's promo indicate that healthy eating is the focus, with
titles like "Unfried Chicken","Turkey Chili" and"Farro With
Peas, Asparagus, Pesto and Cured Olives".

Fans of The Great British Bake Off who were disappointed that
the show was leaving the BBC now have something to look forward to
watching. The network has just announced that it will be producing
anew reality cooking
show begininng in 2017.

Called 'The Big Family Cooking Challenge', the program will
follow multi-generational family teams of amateur cooks, who will
participate via their home kitchens, each facing a weekly
culinary challenge. One by one the teams will be eliminated
until one family stands as the winner. Twelve episodes have been
ordered for the show, which has not yet cast any judges or
started filming.

It's not clear whether this is the programhinted at last monththat would
star Mary Berry, Mel Giedroyc, and Sue Perkins. Last week, the BBC
announced it had struck a development deal with GBBO winner Nadiya
Hussain, so GBBO fans also have that to console them.

The 2016 Observer Food Monthly awards were announced at a gala celebration last
Thursday. The awards, in their 13th year, celebrate the best of
British food and drink. Categories range from best restaurant and
best cheap eats to best food personality to best market and more,
including our favorite, best new cookbook. While most of the
categories are for professionals and businesses, there is an award
for best reader's recipe. Judges are drawn from across the food
industry. EYB Member favorites like Nigella Lawson, Nathan Outlaw,
Nigel Slater and Lorraine Pascale are all on the judging
panel.

The 2016 Best New Cookbook Award went to Our
Korean Kitchen by Jordan Bourke and Rejina Pyo. The
book can be viewed as "a love story: of Pyo and Bourke as a couple;
and of Bourke towards a cuisine little known in the UK," notes interviewer Tim Lewis. The pair met in
2008, when Bourke was transforming from a career in media to being
a chef. Bourke first trained at Ballymaloe cookery
school in Ireland, and now mixes writing with consulting and pop-up
supper clubs. He has written two other cookbooks prior toOur Korean Kitchen,The Guilt-Free
Gourmet andThe Natural Food Kitchen.

Jamie Oliver took home the award for Best Food Personality and
Pierre Koffman nabbed the Lifetime Achievement Award. Edinburgh
food blogger Kerry Teacle won the reader's recipe award with her
whisky, orange and almond cake. The recipe will be published in
indexed magazine Observer
Food Monthly, so keep an eye out for it in next
month's issue.

When news broke that Chris Kimball was leaving
America's Test Kitchen and Cook's Illustrated, which he founded
more than 20 years ago, people wondered how the brand would change
and what the bow-tied star would do. While Kimball has moved on to
a new venture (Milk Street Kitchen), it looks
like ATKhas opted to sail the high
seas.

That's right - America's Test Kitchen is partnering
with cruise line Holland America, installing replicas of its iconic
television sets on board several cruise ships. Starting next month,
ATK will host on-board cooking demonstrations and workshops. But
that isn't the only change they're making; the company announced
that it is also moving ATK headquarters out of the suburbs to
Boston's Seaport District. According to a press release, the new
location hasnearly double the square footage of ATK's current
headquarters and will contain
three television studios, multiple photo and editing
studios, plus state-of-the-art test kitchens.

This move follows an announcement earlier this week
of a new website calledCook's
Science. The aim of Cook's Science is "to
tell stories about food science by stepping out of the kitchen and
reporting from the field." ATK sees this as a logical extension
of the company's methodology, which has always been
rooted in a scientific approach to cooking.

Fans who
were disappointed that Mary Berry wasn't going to stay with The
Great British Bake Off as it moves to a new channel will be happy
to hear that the BBC is planning a new cookery competition starring
Berry along with former GBBO co-hosts Mel Giedroyc and Sue
Perkins. Sources state that the BBC have told Berry "that she will
be placed at the heart of the corporation's cookery line-up and
will be styled as the broadcaster's number one television chef
until she chooses to retire." There is also a rumor
that former Saturday Kitchen host James Martin is being
considered as a replacement for Paul Hollywood on the new
cooking program.

The BBC will have to tread carefully as they develop a format
for any new competition. Love Productions, which owns the rights to
GBBO, accused them of "ripping off" the format to create a
show about amateur hairdressers, and the BBC had to pay
damages.

More details about the new GBBO have trickled out after we
learned that Paul Hollywood was staying with the show. It's
apparently going to be extended to 90 minutes in length,
although Love Productions chief Richard McKerrow assured
fans that the show would keep its original format. "Bake
Off will be produced by the same team, in the same tent, with the
same recipe," he said.

In
an update to the drama surrounding The Great British Bake Off's
move from BBC to Channel 4, host Mary Berry has announced that
she
will not be involved with the new show.
However, Paul Hollywood has signed a three-year deal with the
network, making him the only original host making the move.

Berry said that loyalty to the BBC, which had "nurtured her and
the show", influenced her decision. Hollywood tweeted that he
was "staying in the tent with the bakers where I belong" although
he did thank the BBC and his co-hosts "for making my time in the
tent great fun and really rewarding."

Opinion is divided on whether the GBBO will be successful
without popular hosts Berry, Mel Giedroyc, and Sue Perkins. Michael
Grade, former BBC and ITV chairman, is one of the skeptics. "It's a
huge gamble in my view," he said, noting that the chemistry between
the hosts played a large role in the success of the show.
Others, like former contestant Tamal Ray, think the
switch can be good. "About time there was a bit of a shake-up,"
says the ex-finalist.